It was a saga that actually began at the end of 2018 when Chickasaw Ambulance Service owner and operator Jeremy McGrath notified Chickasaw County Ambulance Council Chairman Steve Geerts that he was going to opt out of its contract.
The 2019-20 school year was less than a month away from commencing this summer, and New Hampton Community Schools Jay Jurrens sat in his office and espoused confidence.
Iowa BIG North is one of 19 educational programs in Iowa that will receive some additional funding from Iowa’s STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) Advisory Council.
“Winter, where art thou?”
That was the “lead” headline on the front page of the Jan. 1, 2019, Tribune, and trust us, if we would have known what was coming, we would never have written it.
The long-rumored closing of New Hampton’s Shopko store became a reality this past spring, but the city and surrounding area came out a winner when Theisen’s agreed to purchase the building and move their store across the street.
Simon Lindquist came into his foreign exchange year in America with high expectations. He has yet to be disappointed.
He describes his experience as “absolutely fantastic” so far, and he is loving every minute.
New Hampton’s mayor and fire chief will not be the same at the beginning of 2020, as city voters and fire department members decided 2019 needed to be a year of change.
It’s never a great sign when one sees farmers giving up their Thanksgiving holiday weekend because they still have crops in the field or post-harvest field work to complete.
When the Chickasaw County unit of the Salvation Army began its Red Kettle Campaign last month, Kris Markham publicly hoped it could reach it’s goal.
Privately, though, Markham was just hoping that the campaign would reach five digits.
One of the most tragic and horrific crimes in the history of Chickasaw County was settled in 2019, when Cheyanne Renee Harris was found guilty by a Plymouth County jury in February of the first-degree murder and child endangerment resulting in dea
This is one of those stories that most of us in and around Chickasaw County already knew: The Pub at the Pinicon’s breaded tenderloin is the best one in all of Iowa.
Those who drove by New Hampton’s McDonald’s restaurant on the city’s west side had no doubt something big was going on.
It certainly was as the restaurant owned by the Soifer Family underwent one heck of a makeover.
By the middle of next month, New Hampton Community Schools will have a whole new online look, one geared to how its patrons access the internet and social media.
